Intermediate Financial Management (with Thomson One)

to the Mini Case slides and Excel files. (b) Instructors can post the files to their
own password-protected Web sites. (c) Instructors can print the solutions and
make them available to students. (d) Instructors can contact the Publisher and
order a custom publication containing the solutions, which can be packaged
with the textbook.
THE INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE:
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO LEARNING
Intermediate Financial Management includes a broad range of ancillary materials
designed both to enhance students’ learning and to help instructors prepare for
and conduct classes. These ancillaries are all included on the ThomsonNOW Web
site, found at http://now.swlearning.com/brigham. Most of them are also included
on the Instructor’s Resource CD. The instructor’s resources, such as the instructor’s
manual and the solutions to the Excel problems, are restricted to the instructor’s
side of the Web site.
1. Instructor’s Manual. This comprehensive manual contains answers to all the
Beginning-of-Chapter Questions, end-of-chapter questions and problems, and
Mini Cases. It is available in print form as well as in Microsoft Word.
2. PowerPoint slides. Each chapter has a Mini Case that covers all the essential
issues presented in the chapter and can be used to provide structure for lectures.
There are PowerPoint slides based on the Mini Case in which graphs,
tables, lists, and calculations are developed sequentially, much as one might
develop them on a blackboard or in transparencies. However, the slides are
more crisp, clear, and colorful, and they use color-coding to tie elements of a
given slide together. Copies of these files are on the Instructor’s Resource CD,
and can be made available to students on the ThomsonNOW Web site. We
find that many students bring copies of the slides, printed three to a page, to
class and use the printouts for taking notes. Other students who like to take
notes on their laptop computers use the notes feature in PowerPoint to take
notes directly on the slides.
3. Mini Case spreadsheets. In addition to the PowerPoint slides, we also provide
Excel spreadsheets that do all the calculations required in the Mini Cases.
These are similar to the Tool Kits for the chapter, except (a) the numbers in
the examples correspond to the Mini Case rather than to the chapter per se,
and (b) we added some features that make it possible to do what-if analysis
on a real-time basis in class. We often begin our lectures with the PowerPoint
presentation, but after we have explained a basic concept we “toggle” to the
Excel file and show how the case analysis is done in Excel. 5 For example,
when covering bond pricing, we might begin with the PowerPoint show and
cover the basic facts and calculations. We could then toggle to the Excel
spreadsheet and use a graph to show how bond prices change as the interest
rate varies. Students could also bring their laptops to class and follow along,
doing the what-if analysis themselves.
4. Web Safaris. We became frustrated with our own searches on the Internet, so
we created and put on the ThomsonNOW Web site a series of links that keep
5 Note: To toggle between two open programs, such as Excel and PowerPoint, hold the Alt key down and hit the Tab key
until you have selected the program you want, and then enter it.
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